Satu Tolonen to dredge intelligence in MDI

MDI reports – especially maps, indicators and networks analysis  – will get more depth and colour with Satu Tolonen, who has been assigned as Research Designer to MDI from 15 April 2013. She will be working with demanding research tasks. She has experience in the analysis and development of network-based regional development from Ministry of Employment and the Economy in Finland, where she was appointed as a Senior Planning Officer for more than five years. Finnish regional developers and people in MDI got familiar with her especially through COCO (Cohesion and Competitiveness programme) and European regional developers and planners through ESPON.

A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme

AGDA is a Nordic development project funded by the Nordic Gender Equality Fund (NIKK). The project focuses on the opportunities that a greater focus on diversity and inclusion could create in the RDI-field, particularly in respect of green transition.

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MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities

The challenge bundle work is the cross-cutting co-development of the “Sustainable City” programme, co-ordinated by the Ministry of the Environment, with the aim of producing and sharing information, knowledge and solutions to the challenges linking cities’ management and practice in the area of leading work towards sustainability. The work produces concrete development measures, new ways of doing things and peer learning.

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